Ideas for smoothing out rain

[purejosh]

Describe the feature

It's hard to hit a perfect ratio for rain, but I'm thinking the checks might just be too frequent. Even at 10%, the server rains for 20 seconds and stops for maybe a few minutes, which is more than vanilla, so there might just be some tweaking needed.

Maybe changing the checks to once every 2 minutes, since the daytime is 10 minutes. If the check passes, allow it to rain for 4 minutes and don't check again after that rain cycle for 4 more minutes. This would ensure an immunity after the rain cycle, preventing it from being too rainy.

Or, maybe instead of a percentage, there could be a scale of 1 though 10 for rain aggressiveness. The rain aggressiveness settings can be tweaked on the back end, for even more behavior. For example:

rainAggressiveness: 1 = rain check every 10 minutes, rains for 2 minutes, immunity for 20 minutes rainAggressiveness: 10 = rain check every 1 minute, rain for 6 minutes, immunity for 4 minutes.

And rainAggressiveness would be an individual season setting, which paired with the chance to rain, can provide more finite control of the rain patterns. I personally like winter with a lot of precipitation, but summer showers are also nice to have too, but in both cases, I would want the rain to be more consistent and not triggering every 20 seconds and raining for only 20 seconds.

Let me know your thoughts! Here to help.

[GC-spigot]

It's 20 seconds because of the vast range of day length it can be, from 1 minute to 20. This would handle the minute length days fine as well.

What about a solution that instead of every 20 seconds it checks 4 times per day? This wouldnt make the rain feel so random.

[Mitality]

Would be a great feature - I just experienced a 20s thunderstorm 😅

[Mitality]

Also, in terms of smoothing out things... I do not use snow and ice myself, but still, I feel like it would make much more sense to have it spread with an algorithm like this: